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Offline The Gopher

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What is it?
« on: May 05, 2010, 10:24:16 am »
I was going through a box of old stuff and came accross something i found when i was a kid. I grew up in central North Dakota and found this on our land just north of Mandan.

I drilled the hole when i was a kid for a necklace.

I think it's an old mountain lion tooth, your thoughts?

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Offline aero86

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 11:52:43 am »
a tooth or talon
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Offline Parnell

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 12:06:56 pm »
I'm thinking a tooth would have a root.  I was thinking a claw.  Maybe like a badger or something?
Wild guess on my part - my skills aren't super.
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 01:24:16 pm »
It is definitely not a Tooth....It's a Claw of some.Species...without any dimensions...its hard to guess what though
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 02:02:20 pm »
It is very bony/toothy looking though as far as the actual material is concerned. if it's a claw then it must be petrified or something.
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 02:11:48 pm »
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Offline Parnell

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2010, 02:22:59 pm »
Lots of Dinosaur artifacts in that area, aren't there?  Is it petrified?
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2010, 03:39:32 pm »
Yeah that's why i thought it was a tooth, because it looked so bone/tooth-like

there is quite a bit of dino stuff in ND although most of it is a little further west, near Dickenson.
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2010, 03:56:13 pm »
It looks close to a badger claw - but not the same. It doesn't have the high arch on the top side and hooks more at the end than gradually like the badger claw. As for size, I think it would match, but for shape it doesn't. I think it's something else. Young bear maybe? Not really sure. I don't think it's a tooth though. Some kind of non-retractable claw. Wolverine maybe?
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Offline aero86

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2010, 06:04:59 pm »
mail it to me and ill get my dachshund to sniff it.  if he doesnt eat it, we'll know its not a badger claw.  if he does, we'll know it was! ;D  hehe
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2010, 07:31:03 am »


     Black Bear Claw?  Veloci raptor tooth? ::)

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